Mental Health
Text OS to 24042 to join 95.5 The Lou’s mobile club for exclusive news (Terms & Conditions). It was 2003 when Taraji P. Henson searched for a Black therapist for her young son. She couldn’t find one. She said it was like “looking for a unicorn.” Taraji decided to start the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation, in honor of her late father […]
Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams checked into a mental facility outside of Los Angeles a few days ago to seek help for her ongoing battle with depression. The singer has been open with her struggles in the past, revealing her battle with depression in an interview last year: She also posted on her Instagram […]
One college professor wants to do a complex analysis of Kanye West’s life. The professor is Dr. Jeffrey McCune and he teaches at St. Louis’ Washington University. He will be teaching a lecture called “Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy: Kanye West and the Politics of Self-Diagnosis,” in an attempt to unpack labels such as “crazy” vs. “genius,” […]
HelloBeautiful contributing writer Kamela Fleming recently overcame a debilitating struggle with depression, which is plaguing scores of Black women across the country. In the first of a two-part journal series, she shares how the losses that so many of us experience — the end of a relationship and a lack of financial stability — sent her […]
Despite checking himself into rehab earlier this month, Kid Cudi still has his eyes and ears to the street (or social media) apparently.
A 66-year-old woman was shot and killed by a police sergeant in her Bronx apartment after she allegedly charged at the sergeant with a baseball bat.
Alfred Olango was not mentally ill, but suffered from a mental breakdown over the death of a close friend when he was fatally shot by police, his family alleged at a presser on Thursday.
In this week's CBC Message to America, Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL) the ranking member of Veterans Affairs discusses how the Veterans Crisis Line can help prevent suicides amongst our soldiers.
Kevin Tyrone Powell was charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury after walking into the salon -- owned by his mother, Derema "Miss Dee" Burch -- and shooting her in the face.
A man who's been arrested 29 times for transit-related crimes found himself behind bars again for stealing a Greyhound bus in NYC.
Details about just what happened on Wednesday remain unclear. And hours after the incident, the family's attorney, William H. Murphy, Jr. tweeted a statement requesting privacy.
Surveillance footage of Matthew Ajibade’s January arrest has been released, showing the moments before he was found dead while strapped to a restraint chair in…